CAREER: The Consequences of Efforts to Control Human Reproduction for Science and Medicine

职业：科学和医学控制人类生殖的后果

• 批准号: 2237007
• 负责人: stef shuster
• 金额: $ 40.56万
• 依托单位: Michigan State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-01 至 2028-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2237007&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Consequences; Efforts; Control; Human

This CAREER project examines how historical efforts to control human reproduction shaped the ways scientists and medical communities understand reproductive health in contemporary times. In the 19th and early 20th Centuries, scientific and medical communities worked alongside the state to “improve” the nation’s hereditary pool, including through forced sterilization of marginalized populations. This project investigates how these endeavors influenced the developing medicine of reproduction in the late 20th Century and how it continues to influence scientific knowledge and reproductive health. The study enhances undergraduate science education by introducing students to lasting issues in reproductive health and inequality. The project produces a digital archive that advances public understanding of the history of medicine, science, and health inequalities. This project uses a combination of archival methods and interviews to understand how efforts to control genetics in the population affected scientific and medical understandings and current experiences with reproduction. The research includes content analysis of scientific articles on reproductive health published from 1950 to 2000 and archived correspondence with health providers and scientists. The project also collects and analyzes oral histories with 50 people about their experiences in reproductive health and creates a new public digital archive to house these histories. Addressing these research questions offers vital contributions to the social study of medicine, science and technology studies, and broader understandings of the social and historical factors that contribute to health inequalities.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该职业项目研究了历史上控制人类生殖的努力如何影响了科学家和医学界理解当代生殖健康的方式。在 19 世纪和 20 世纪初，科学界和医学界与国家合作，“改善”国家的遗传资源，包括对边缘人群进行强制绝育。该项目调查这些努力如何影响 20 世纪末生殖医学的发展，以及如何继续影响科学知识和生殖健康。该研究通过向学生介绍生殖健康和不平等方面的持久问题来加强本科科学教育。该项目制作了一个数字档案，以增进公众对医学、科学和健康不平等历史的理解。该项目结合使用档案方法和访谈来了解控制人群遗传学的努力如何影响科学和医学理解以及当前的生殖经验。该研究包括对 1950 年至 2000 年发表的生殖健康科学文章的内容分析以及与卫生服务提供者和科学家的存档通信。该项目还收集并分析了 50 人关于生殖健康经历的口述历史，并创建了一个新的公共数字档案来存放这些历史。解决这些研究问题对医学社会研究、科学技术研究以及对造成健康不平等的社会和历史因素的更广泛理解做出了重要贡献。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。